‘Ops Selamat’ all about safety on roads, rivers, seas and houses

KOTA SAMARAHAN: Police will be conducting ‘Ops Selamat 12/2018’ with focus on accident-prone areas or ‘black spots’ and ‘hot spots’ for burglary this Chinese New Year season from Feb 9-23.

State Commissioner of Police Dato Sri Amer Awal said the operation aims to ensure road users and homes left unattended are safe during this festive period.

“Our operation will be based on ‘total enforcement’ since the ‘awareness’ concept advocated before was not effective in deterring drivers and road users,” he said.

“We hope the new concept will make our drivers and road users drive carefully this festive period.” His text of speech was read by his deputy Datuk Pahlawan Dzuraidi Ibrahim who officiated at the event at Farley Supermarket in Bandar Riyal Kota Samarahan yesterday.

Amer revealed that ‘Ops Selamat’ was also about house safety, especially those left unattended during the festive period.

He said apart from road and home safety, police will work with the Sarawak Rivers Board and Sarawak Marine Department to focus on the safety of sea and river transport.

“The police and these two agencies will collaborate with express boat operators to ensure the safety of their passengers are given priority to achieve zero incident on the seas or rivers,” he disclosed.